8 A.M.
JC: We decide to score our fifty pounds worth and tuck into a full Scottish ‘brekkie’ at the hotel, sugar free of course, so no baked beans!
10 A.M.
JC: We head back to Bragar and en-route we speculate the best possible outcome for the day. Timo reckons he would settle for waist high waves while I am a little more optimistic with shoulder high! There is a moment of anticipation as you arrive at the spot as the lane climbs up a hill before revealing your fate. Down below in the bay we can finally see swell lines and there is no doubt about it…it is on like Donkey Kong!
10:15 A.M.
JC: With military precision Timo drops me at one end of the bay and heads to the other side to rig and launch. The sets seem to be building by the minute and the sun is peaking through the clouds. This is my third trip to Lewis and already the day seems to be lining up to be one of the standouts in terms of waves! By 10:45 Timo has already nailed about five or six waves and I know he will be happy. On his second wave he nailed three huge aerials on a logo high peeling set. That one wave alone was probably enough to make the trip worth it. For the next hour and a half Timo clocks up countless waves before finally venturing in to change board. I decided to head back over to the other side of the bay to shoot from a different angle.
10:30 A.M.
TIMO: I’ve seen this scenario at Bragar so many times before, it is a reluctant beast to wake up, but it always seems to deliver the goods! Today was looking no different, although I have to admit even I was dubious when a mere 4 hours previous it was as flat as a pancake! Already as I was rigging up I could see that there was going to be some fun sections and it was sunny, just maybe our luck was turning! It was nuking so I rigged a 4.2m but was thinking 3.7m was probably best; as it is always a bit gusty at Bragar I went for the extra power of the 4.2 in case our sun and wave time may be limited. As it turned out my setup was perfect, the waves were classic Bragar, super long and clean with as many sections as your legs could endure, which for me after my last 24 hours was not too many, I was pretty shattered after my first 50 waves!